To:V. M. MOLOTOV

Written:Written between April 9 and 21, 1921Published:First published in 1945 inLenin Miscellany XXXV.

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      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeMolotov:

Unlessmy memory fails me, I believe the newspapers
carried a C.C. letter or circular about May Day, whichsaid:expose the falsehood of religion, or something to that
effect.

Thatis not right. It is tactless. Just because it is the
Easter holiday, we should recommend somethingquite
different:

notto expose the falsehood,

butabsolutely to avoid any affront to religion.

Weshould issue an additional letter or
circular.[1]If the
Secretariat does not agree, then in the Politbureau.

[1]Inaddition to an earlier circular, the R.C.P.(B.) Central
Committee published a letter inPravdaon April 21, 1921, urging that
in celebrating May Day “nothing should be done or said to offend
the religious feelings of the mass of the population”.